Victor Hugo

(414 votes)   God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(314 votes)   Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(310 votes)   From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(305 votes)   to learn to read is to light fire

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(269 votes)   At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry - Les Miserables

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(257 votes)   The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(256 votes)   To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(242 votes)   In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(237 votes)   Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(235 votes)   There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(230 votes)   Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall!

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1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(228 votes)   England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(228 votes)   There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(227 votes)   In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.

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1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(226 votes)   To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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